Δευτέρα, 14 Απριλίου 2014

Following the negative review in a previous post, i suspected that the problem was from the battery / I did a search and bought one new battery via the ebay. The battery costed me abt 12 Euros !I tried to open the case but it was quit tricky to me . dfo this reason i given it to a tecjnicain to do the 'dirty job' IN just 2 minutes he opened the player unscrew a screw and change the battery . And Player is now working properly. Now the player after the welcome screen it shows a menu this way:

At fist i thought that the red cycle was the navigation knob. but could nt do anything... readin a bit in the user's guide the navigation is amde from the middle button that worls as joystick The menu consists of the music library , recordings , the just playing photos (ie very small sizes , some extras and system settings )

Teh recordings menu shows all recordings . microphone and inline recs / for all files as well as the tansfered files the screen shows the filename as scrolled . Pressing the joystick for several seconds i shows a quick menu for adding the file to playlist

Now playing shwos the current and the previous song Photos shows the directory in a form as of Windows 7 Extrasmenu include date/time MIc rec Line in rec Organizer (calendar tasks contacts )propviding that you alerady have installed the provided CD in the packing

The player is recognized as a portable device . not as a removable disk.More on the end of this article

Here is how a file is played. Special additions are available wth prolongd push on button as add to favs , add to playlists etc Recording Recording is the main reason i bought this player . Not only for shortwave logs but also for recording audio tapes , vinyls etc This is the reason that this part is more dedicated . I very sparingly use it for playback

Here is a photo during recording. recording is made by pressing the REC button int he right part of the player .In contast to Nano plus , Zen V has the ability to adjust the earphone level during recording Tere are 3 ways to use it for recording 1. use the special button at the middle of right side of the palyer 2. naviagate from the extras menu 3. from the quick menu

The quick menu shows :

In silent mode (is when is not recording ) you can also make these ajustmensts :

start recording

delete recording

review

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bitrate [WMA only 128 and 160 ]

synch [That means once the player finds audio gaps to immediately stop this is achieved by pressing for more than 2 secs the back button (bottom right ) ]

Maximum recording time is 10 hours (still wondering if that means ).If part of the memory is filled with files it shows the remain recording time I have bought this player only for this reason . I think that its memory is quite small. Nevertheless 900 MB are enough for making recordings up to 980 minutesTesting recording differences between V and Nano : As noticed in my audio test site on ipernity severeal people found that V has a bassier and richer audio than Plus

And a few more on the generated files: In contast to Creative Zen Plus (PLus files are generated as in series ie ENC001 etc ) the files have the format LINE-2014-04-13 17h10m14s .wma ie showing date and time the file is saved

Audio : Creative was the leader on computer audio systems . Therefore their fidelity is surely the best among computer audio equipment . The same applies to this player . Using the tracks provided with the player the sound is superb . I have tested with the Sennheiser headphones which have the flatter audio response among my headphones. The highest possible level is still not very strong with these headphones

Comparison with Zen Nano: Using the Sennheiser headphones ,the sound is nearly the same with V being a little bassier . I used the audio files provided in V for this test

Computer connectivity:

Instead of being recognized asa typical external media storage it has the format of a device as printer or external device .. The
player can be synchronized with the computer's media player . Drag and
drop can work only for file transfer from and to computer but cannot
be directly applauded to any site via the browser. The files have fist
to be transferred to computer and then posted ! I found that in Win XP the files have registry format numbers etc that means as a peculiar string format esp the directories produced by the install shield or any other installation proram in the /temp directory Once i have changed a recorded file via computer but the player still shown the recorded name ! MY verdict: 4/5Zen V is an excellent recorder and player with a rich sound. The only awkward is with the connectivity and bevhaviour of its files ...